“I'm very hard-working,” senior Emily Brinkley said. “I like being busy; I really don't want to just sit at home and not do anything.” Brinkley leads the Oriole staff as the Editor-in-Chief for the second year in a...

Sophomore Quinn Slaughter works hard for what he wants. When it comes to school plays, he does his best to secure the best role. “I want to get some pretty important stories, like the musical and play,” Slaughter said. Sl...

Sophomore Alyssa Jordan is new to the newspaper staff, and she is a first-year reporter. “I just heard from people who told me they thought I would like it, that it was a cool class,” Jordan said. “I thought it would be ...

Freshman Balei Phillips played various sports growing up, with hopes to continue playing in several sports in high school, also participating in several extracurricular activities, including newspaper. “I love the team bond...

The soft clatter of keyboards echoes through the journalism lab, blending with the sound of ongoing conversations and the occasional burst of laughter. Within the room sits sophomore Ryanne Schmidt, her fingers positioned over the...

“My first semester of junior year, I was in 21st Century journalism, and I really enjoyed it,” senior Harley Williams said. "I had talked to Barker quite a bit about it, and she put me in the newspaper class for the second ...

While the newspaper crew chatters like an Oriole, often, reporter Abby Brinkley sits silently and listens in on the chaos. “I'm a reporter,” sophomore Abby Brinkley said. “I was last year and this year, and I probably w...

“Newspaper and journalism has changed a lot; it’s changed with technology, and it’s changed with the community’s perceptions of journalism,” adviser Julie Barker said. “It’s important to help students know that we a...

Like a coach asking Archie Andrews in the television show "Riverdale" to join the team after seeing him play, senior Martin Epperson, Jr. joined the newspaper staff when a teacher asked him. “Well, I took 21st Century journalism my f...

After gaining hands-on experience in the journalism program, junior Mason Pringle took his passion for storytelling a step further by joining the school’s newspaper class. “There is so much freedom and creativity in newspaper, you can...